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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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Belief Citizenship Creation Different Justice Nation Remember
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Inspirational Worst
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Morning Oneself Reading
But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
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Achievement Future God Gratitude Nature Patriot Remember Technology World
In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Desire Life Man Opportunity Quality Satisfaction
If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Politics Walk Wrong Yourself
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Humor Men Oneself Patriot Thinking
Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Enemy Friendship Hug Yourself
I’m the only president you’ve got.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Government Myself One Liner
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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Funny Man Smart Time Wasted Time
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Citizenship Education Money Opportunity Ourselves
It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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Believe Leadership Price Time
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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Man Night Right
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Education Learning Myself Oneself Problem Truth Word
The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Angry Destruction Hands Oneself Poor Suffering
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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Death Kind Myself Nation Vision
Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
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Action Leadership Right Success Wisdom
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Problem Right Wisdom
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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Funny Himself Men Stars Togetherness
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Live Peace Togetherness Understand
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Country Danger Hate Mindset Ourselves Victim
Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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Achievement Missing Opportunity Word
Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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Myself Room Strange Writing
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Agreement Feeling Liberty Right Thinking
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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Eyes Law Mother Room Yourself
Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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Couple Greatness Himself Love Men Religious Wife
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON

Happiness Kindness Person Reflection

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